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- pronunciation:
- sIm
y
leIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
simulates, simulating, simulated |
| definition 1: |
to imitate or reproduce the appearance, sound, or other external characteristics or qualities of.
We try to simulate natural conditions in the laboratory.The machine simulates the feeling of weightlessness that an astronaut experiences in space.
- synonyms:
- imitate
- similar words:
- copy, duplicate, mimic, mock, re-create, reproduce
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| definition 2: |
to put on an appearance of; pretend.
He simulated an enthusiasm he did not feel.- synonyms:
- affect, assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, pretend, sham
- similar words:
- act
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| related words: |
affect, counterfeit, echo, emulate, impersonate, mirror, profess |
adverb + (v.)simulate
accurately, closely
(v.)simulate
+ noun
altitude,
atmosphere,
attack,
behavior,
blade,
brain,
bump,
button,
climate,
cloth,
collision,
combat,
condition,
contact,
crash,
daylight,
destruction,
disability,
distortion,
drop,
drowning,
effect,
emergency,
environment,
evolution,
experience,
experiment,
explosion,
feel,
flash,
flight,
flow,
fluid,
formation,
gravity,
habit,
instruction,
instrument,
interaction,
laboratory,
load,
loading,
logic,
maneuver,
masturbation,
mechanism,
mile,
motion,
movement,
noise,
operation,
phase,
phenomenon,
physics,
plane,
process,
pulse,
quantum,
rain,
rainfall,
reality,
resistance,
scenario,
session,
sex,
situation,
smoke,
snow,
soil,
sound,
stance,
stress,
sunlight,
texture,
tissue,
travel,
variety,
walking,
wave,
weightlessness,
wheelchair,
wind
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| derivations: |
simulative (adj.), simulatory (adj.) |
The word simulate
contains the following parts:
sim, semb
Latin
root
that means like, similar
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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